• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: On social femininatives in Serbian and other Slavic languages
  • Contributor: Piper, Predrag
  • Published: National Library of Serbia, 2016
  • Published in: Juznoslovenski filolog, 72 (2016) 3-4, Seite 35-65
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2298/jfi1604035p
  • ISSN: 0350-185X; 2406-0763
  • Keywords: General Medicine
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  • Description: Social femininatives, such as Serbian pevacica, uciteljica, upravnica, available in all Slavic languages, have in recent decades become a subject of language policy based on political correctness in the field of gender relations. As part of this language policy, the requirement is put forward of creating feminine neologisms in respect of each masculine noun, designating a profession or social status. The use of the ideological and political criteria in order to change the grammatical structure of the language is typical of more or less all modern Slavic literary languages. A common feature of such language policy is their communicative and grammatical groundlessness.
  • Access State: Open Access